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Re: Camber Alignement
Posted by George Suwala (more from George Suwala) on Tue, 19 Mar 2002 21:01:51
In Reply to: , Kok Chen, Sat, 17 Dec 1988 12:00:00 

I've got my 9000 back into the alignement shop (it lost the steering feel
after the camber alignement) and the feel/handling has been restored after I
told them to dial it to 0.8 degree negative (note that the 0.3 which they
claimed to be the actual value after the first adjustment was now reading 0
degree before second adjustment).

Lessons learned:
1. 0.5 degree camber change gives a huge handling difference
(at least to me, my wife sees no difference and does not know
what I'm talkig about :-)
2. This is not an exact science - e.g. back wheels were showing
different readings on 2 visits. Front was negative 0.3 after
first alignement and 0 before the second alignement 2 weeks later
3. Factory/delaer says camber is not adjustable, it's still
to be seen what's the long term performance of this adjustment kit
installed by an independent
4. It's to be seen if the inner tire wear (at original -1.3 camber)
is going to continue at -0.8.

Outstanding question: Is anyone seeing a sharp (like at 45 degrees) cut on
their inner front edges of front tires, which is also almost caved in? That's
what started this camber adjustment experience. It's my second 9000 shaving
tires exactly the same way and the Saab mechanic says he has never seen it
and it's probably a tire problem (so I've had a bunch of tires with this
problem already :-), the alignement guy says he has never seen such a wear in
30 years - what's going on?

>Now the steering feels really
>odd, getting into a parking lot seems to nearly pull the tires off the
>wheels. Any Idea?

Sounds opposite to the problem I had (my steering was too light with
little/no camber)  so perhaps you have too much negative camber or toe-out
instead of toe-in (or something else - just guessing here)

George

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